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Enhance your teaching and your living with emotional intelligence, time management, and other topics at your next in-service or pto event.


Exploring EI, Maslow and Motivation. (for teachers)

How do we remain enthused in our work?  How do we inspire our students?  Exploring new research in cognitive science, emotional intelligence, and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we’ll examine our habits of thinking and look at how best to motivate our students.

The Power of Feelings: Teaching Emotional Intelligence.

Help children recognize and use emotions to increase self-awareness and compassion.

What are emotions? How can I help children handle feelings in a healthy way? 

In this fun and thought-provoking workshop, you will learn about emotional literacy – the ABCs of emotional intelligence .  You’ll gather:

  • Exercises you can use to increase emotional intelligence.
  • New insight into the meaning of feelings.
  • A powerful process for managing emotional outbursts.

Most of all, you will learn about using your emotions as a positive, helpful source of energy and information. Since emotional intelligence increases health, success, and strong relationships, these are skills every educator or parent can use!

 
From the Heart: Emotional Intelligence for Empathy and Acceptance.

Humans could not have survived as a species if everyone cared only about him/herself. Discover how you can help children develop appropriate empathetic thoughts, feelings and actions.
This workshop will help you:

  • Understand the power of empathy.
  • Develop more effective ways of communicating with your children.
  • Support your children to be more caring, courageous, and compassionate.

Raising Strong, Caring Kids: Emotional Intelligence to Help Children Make Positive Choices. 

What helps children make healthy choices? Come to a fun and inspiring workshop to learn:

  • Four EI tools essential for raising children who can think for themselves.
  • Increased emotional awareness to better understand yourself and your child(ren).
  • New ways of communicating to have discipline without emotional damage.

Emotional intelligence will help you understand and use feelings in a healthy, productive way. EI skills reduce depression and keep kids out of trouble – they are basic skills every child and adult needs to function in today’s world.

 
Bouncing Ahead: Emotional Intelligence to Build Optimistic Children.

Optimists believe we have the power to change, grow, and move forward. Optimism is a learned skill, and optimists live longer, healthier, more successful lives – their marriages are more successful, they get better grades in school, and they earn a higher income!
Practicing optimism will help you to:

  • Change your internal dialogue from negative to positive.
  • Teach your children a better “explanatory style” for failure and mistakes.
  • Move from an “I give up” habit to an “I can do it” habit.

Join us to learn more about optimism!

 

Thank you to the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) for permission to link to this terrific article from their March 2008 publication (Childhood Education). Author Sue Grossman courageously details the complicated and contradictory feelings a teacher may have for a student. It is only when we are this honest that we can learn to manage and transform our negative feelings. Then we can stop these hidden emotions from causing unseen reactions in ourselves and others.

You can view the article here.

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